2008 ICT Workshop on Intelligent Lifelong Learning Companions

• All workshop presentations & materials (~17MB zipped)
• slides from individual talks are on the agenda
• Final schedule and abstracts  
  
• Working groups overview
• Human Learning & requirements
• Assessment & learner modeling
• Implementation, interoperability, & scaling
• Communication & relationship building
• Guidance, experience, & assistance
  
• Videos & other stuff:
• Virtual Humans at ICT 
• Gazoo
• Clippy faces facts
• Yoda & Luke on Degobah
• Yoda-Speak Generator
• Futurama video
• Bender: It was awful. I tried helping them, I tried not helping them but in the end I couldn't do them any good.
• "God":"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

• Brown, J.S. (2008). How to Connect Technology and Passion in the Service of Learning, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 55(8), A99 (3 pages)
• In this commentary piece, JSB talks about social learning, and specifically mentions the use of intelligent tutoring to support "open-ended learning" and learning to become part of a community.
  
• Chou, C-Y, Chan, T-W, Lin, C-J (2003).  Redefining the learning companion: the past, present, and future of educational agents. Computers & Education, 40, 255-269.
• This is a nice survey article on the different roles pedagogical agents can play. It also discusses some implications of the social aspects of learning.
  
• Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (University of Colorado)
• Here you can find more information on some of the projects discussed in Dr. Fischer's presentation at the workshop.
  
• CRA Grand Challenge #3:  Provide a Teacher for Every Learner
• Dr. Kay mentioned this at her ITS 08 keynote.  It calls for intelligent technology to support lifelong learning and mentions several themes that came up in the workshop.
  
• Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES) (University of Saskatchewan)
• Home of the iHelp system mentioned in Dr. Greer and Dr. McCalla's presentation at the workshop (and much, much more).